LONG ISLAND CATHOLIC SCHOOL trades blazers for burqas

In classrooms where Catholic girls once studied the Bible and prayed the Our Father, young Muslims now study the Quran and pray in Arabic (“Death to America?”). The girls no longer wear uniforms with blazers, but traditional Muslim floor-length dresses called jilbabs, with hijabs covering their heads.

Newsday They are the 265 students of MDQ Academy, Suffolk County’s first and only Islamic school, which for the third year is calling the majestic Academy of St. Joseph its home. The former all-girls Catholic high school in Brentwood closed five years ago because of declining enrollment.

The number of students in the Islamic school is growing as it continues the cross-faith coexistence. Their classrooms are on two floors of the structure, part of a complex on the grassy 211-acre property that also includes the headquarters of Long Island’s largest order of nuns.(That won’t last long)

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The arrangement is working out wonderfully, leaders of the groups said. “It’s been very positive for both of us,” said Sister Helen Kearney, head of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Brentwood. “It’s a very positive message for our world that, in a sense, tends to kind of divide groups.”

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The partnership underscores Long Island’s growing ethnic and religious diversity. While Catholics still predominate — two of every three Long Islanders are Catholic — Nassau and Suffolk counties are home to at least 75,000 Muslims, according to Muslim community leaders. Two other full-time Islamic schools are located in Valley Stream and Hempstead, and the Island has about two dozen mosques.

Khurshid Khan, principal of MDQ Academy, said the move to the Brentwood campus has been a blessing for the school, which opened in 2003 with five students and had grown to occupy two houses and a trailer next to Masjid Darul Quran mosque in Bay Shore. It currently has students in preschool through ninth grade, with tuition at $4,500 a year.

“This is a gift to us from heaven,” he said of the building. “For that we thank God almighty.”

For more than a century, the Academy of St. Joseph was an elite Catholic institution, attracting boarding-school students from as far away as South America, with wealthy families sending their daughters north for a solid Catholic education.

But by 2008, the academy no longer could support itself. The school in the four-story building, crowned with a copper cupola that holds a statue of St. Joseph, was closed. Some separate operations continued in other wings, including a day care program that serves children before and after school and a literacy program for immigrant women.

In 2011, the Sisters of St. Joseph reached an agreement with MDQ Academy, and the school moved in. The academy recently extended its agreement with the order, signing a five-year lease. They declined to disclose the amount of rent.

Khan said the building and the entire Sisters of St. Joseph campus and complex — it includes a magnificent chapel and the nuns’ Mother House adjacent to the school — have helped boost enrollment.

How long before we see a minaret on top of St. Joseph’s Academy?

“This is a very nice building, very beautiful, spacious, graceful,” he said. “People come, they see, they are impressed.”

The number of students has grown from 188 in the old location to 265 now. The school has added a grade each year that it has been at St. Joseph and hopes to keep expanding through 12th grade. There is a waiting list to get into some grades. Most of the students come from the Bay Shore and Brentwood areas, but others travel farther.

Kearney said the sharing of space by the two groups has been largely seamless, in part because they share some of the same values: faith, education, family. The school’s students and 32 staff members, like the nuns, pray regularly each day, she noted.

Kearney said the partnership reflects her order’s priorities. “It is kind of the core value in our congregation — that we are all one,” she said. “Respecting diversity and seeing the oneness in that diversity is what our world really needs now.”

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John…….there is a “falling away”of faith in general across the world and this is also a reason for the increase in islam as some people are looking for “something” and unfortunately are taken along the wrong path(islam).However,in the case here with the Catholics and the Muslims,it’s like trying to mix oil and water and yet the nuns seem to think it’s ok to even consider it,and these are people who presumably have spent a large chunk of their life in search of G-d and this is still acceptable to them?The nuns aren’t making any reservations about the set up at all,not one and they should stand up for their religion,as indeed the muslims do,albeit in a wrong way.

All of you who have commented missed the point. the reason muslims are taking over the school is not because they desired, but the opportunity presented it for them. Instead of looking to ourselves and try to do something about our weakness, blaming Muslims or the Catholics is barking to a wrong tree.

If we have our churches to ourselves, no one can take it from us. But when we fight with each other because of doctrinal, ideological, and philosophical differences, we certainly will ended up being weak society that can not sustain ourselves.

That was one of the most vapidly inane posts I’ve ever seen here. The reason the muslims get the churches is because: a) the churches are empty of Christians these days; and: b) willing to sell the buildings to the wrong people (muslims;) and: c) the Saudomites have too much money; because: d) contrary to the usual liberal canard, we actually buy their oil from them at a fair price, in stead of seizing it as war booty (which is what we should be doing all the time until they cry Uncle and leave islam)! Capisce?

This makes me want to puke profusely!!!!!!! Long Island will go down the toilet if muzzies keep flooding in there! I have not been home in ages and I will probably cry to see the negative changes! STUPID< STUPID churches will not wake up and smell the jihad and offer concessions and "peace" to the ENEMY!!!!!!!!! This is an absolute disgrace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What is really wrong is to call it Chrislam, it should be Catholislam, since they are the ones wiling to mix their already mixed religion. Catholicism is a mix of Christianity with Paganism, why not one more mix and match.

Completely true. What kind of Christians are these people? And look at these little girls all wrapped in thick dark coats.. I ask you, what kind of parents would let their girls wear such clothing? Sickening, that’s what it is and the dummies at that school make this seem all acceptable as if it’s a normal thing to do.

Sheik R&R: I’m afraid that the nuns at thet school are infused with the “Future Martyr Complex”. Waiting complacently and quietly until the muslim executioner shows up and sends them to sainthood. In America, with our personal freedoms, we can’t do what should be done and throw all the filthy muslims our of the country, but at least this school should undertake the self preservatory act of instituting regular louse and nit inspections of all students wearing the body louse habitats on their heads.

Sweet………Yes,totally agree with that.Like most Christians”turn the other cheek”…..well that’s all fine and dandy but you can’t think you can sweet talk these sand rats into sanity,they’ll kill you! Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire.

This is why most Christians don’t defend them selves from threats (like islam) these days:

Christians here have been fed liberal lies for too long – that the One and only Christian Commandment is “Judge Not – EVER!” and “ALWAYS Turn The Other Cheek!” They’ve been fed immoral relativism and the idolatrous excuse of victimology: “There’s no real crimes nor criminals nor sins nor sinners, because we’re really all only helpless victims anyway! “Vengeance is (ONLY!) God’s; so don’t ever try to defend yourselves, sheeples! Just learn to be better victims!”

Not to mention, they even “liberalized” (corrupted) the Ten Commandments, by mistranslating #6 – from the original Hebrew: “Thou Shalt Not MURDER” (‘kill unjustly’/as in: ‘not in self-defense’ etc) – into: “Thou Shalt Not KILL” (as in: ‘at all, ever – EVEN in self-defense’)!

After reading many of the comments, many people missed an important point: The Catholic school (like many others) has closed. Muslims are working their way into our educational system. A few years back, my oldest son attended a charter school (for 1 year only) that was run by muslims. I was unaware of this when I signed him up. It was only after he was well into the year, that I noticed that several of the teachers wore a Hijab. What brought it to my attention was that my son was complaining he couldn’t understand the math teacher because of his heavy accent. Anyhow, long story short, the school was a nightmare, but parents with kids in Charter schools: pay attention to who the organization is that runs the school. They have a LOT of say, even if you don’t think so. (My son wanted to go to the school since they taught Turkish as an alternative to Spanish.)

Re: “My son wanted to go to the school since they taught Turkish as an alternative to Spanish. It was only after he was well into the year, that I noticed that several of the teachers wore a Hijab. What brought it to my attention was that my son was complaining he couldn’t understand the math teacher because of his heavy accent. Anyhow, pay attention to who the organization is that runs the school.”

That is a very important fact. We are seeing an increase in the number of Muslims in the US. How is it that in a Midwest town they were allowed to post the five pillars of Islam but if athletes in Florida pray to Jesus Christ they are penalized. America is not free anymore and with the help of Obama we are close to committing a hate crime of we say anything against the prophet of Islam. They always talk crap about my Lord yet that is freedom of speech wake up America Christians are a declining minority and before long Obama will make it a crime to be an active practicing Christian. This is only the beginning!

This is surely an abomination.How can supposedly Catholic nuns or place of Catholic ideals and beliefs rub along with satanism?How? These so called followers of G-d are decievers and liars and should be very afraid because one day they will pay the ultimate price.They should be ashamed.

Basically, islam denies there is a god at all, because Islamic “beliefs” include the belief that their god cannot be understood nor reasoned with, (so it might as well not exist at all) only feared and obeyed.

They also include the criminal notion that, since Muhammad got away with committing his crimes, (and he tried them all, enthusiastically, many times and, far from ever feeling remorse or apologizing for them, instead encouraged everyone else to join him in committing them, too) then “god” must have wanted him to get away with committing those crimes! So obviously islam is only an ancient yet ongoing extortion-racket CRIME syndicate, and the only “religious” part in it, is where they say:

“God told us to commit these crimes!”

;-(

Christianity holds the exact opposite: that, even if God is too complex for us to understand, that still doesn’t stop God from being able to understand us, and to relate to us, and communicate with us, on our own terms, in the person of Jesus Christ. And Jesus advised us to help each other, not to prey on one another.

For all Christians here is the fact that the Qu’ran calls the Son of God an abomination (9:30; 19:88 – 19:89; 37:151 – 37:152) and all of His eye-witnesses liars – by one lone accuser (Muhammad) who was not even there with them at the time – offering no proof but his own say-so.

Moslems and other backwards, adversarial satanic fear-salesmen say: “pain or be pained!” because they fear that fear causes pain. Christians know this world is one of pain and be pained, so fear (the memory of pain, projected to the future) is only the first step in the thought process: to correct our mistakes and avoid future sins, to get to the hope of no pain, one must first face one’s fears of pain, not ignore them or project them onto innocent others. Greed (limited, selfish hope) is not the opposite of the fear of pain – fear and greed are the exact same thing! Moslems fear fear and so have no hope; they only worship their own fears of pain, and avoid thinking about them (more fear) by projecting the relief of them onto others.

Muhammad commands everyone to “Submit to the inevitability of Might-Makes-Right!” while Christ advises and demonstrates to all that, not matter how bad it gets, they should not Submit to becoming a part of the problem by downloading their unjustly-victimized pains onto others, too.

But if the above rant was too complex to teach in a schoo, here’s the short version:

“Chrislam?!”

HEY EVERYBODY! Let’s compare Jesus and Moe, the Founders of their respective creeds!!
(Here’s my Top Ten, just off the top of my head!):

1. How many babies did Jesus rape?
2. How many slaves did Jesus take (and rape)?
3. How many innocent merchants did Jesus torture, to get their treasure to pay his bandit armies?
4. How many bandit armies did Jesus lead, and how many countries did they invade & enslave?
5. How many poisoned swords named “Death!” did Jesus own and use to behead enemies?
6. How many times did Jesus lie, say “God is the greatest deceiver!” and rob and extort people?
7. How many people did Jesus burn out of their homes, while they were still asleep in them?
8. How many people (who had only verbally contested his claims) did Jesus put out “hits” on?
9. How many pregnant women did Jesus have run through with swords for doubting him?

What woke them up was 2 years of Muslim Brotherhood rule that drove their economy to brink of destruction. Tourism is the second largest source of income in Egypt. No tourist, no jobs, no money, people were literally hungry and said ENOUGH. Normal people don’t like to travel to countries that are Sharia compilant, no fun and dangerous.

How can you possibly go from following the words and actions of a beautiful person as Jesus is described as, to the degenerate mohound the pedophile prophet of pisslam, utter madness, that church is lost and endangering the students.The Vatican or the Pope needs to sort that shit out this is an abomination. I am not a Christian btw..

surprise me not with the decaying foundation under the liberal american catholic church , ! turned my other cheek on the give yours up to get along with theirs long ago . Maybe my kind of brand is dying out but it will go with a bang and not a whimper when it does

By the time the Catholic Diocese (Bishop) realizes this won’t work it will be too late. If they try to separate they will be the next jihad target. The nuns must be thinking the hijab wear is not much different from their habits, with no knowledge of the horrific mistake (merge) they just made.

Habits are requirements of Religious Orders and vary depending upon the Order. Some orders have become so lax in their interpretation of “Habits” that many habits are lax interpretations which mirror common street clothing. Some orders of Religious Women interpret their traditional garb much like our children try to skirt the rules of their parents, give them an ‘inch’, they take a mile!

BarenakedIslam is a great WEB site which provides clear cut evidence of Radical Islam in America. That being said I am concerned in the title BarenakedIslam states the Muslims kids are chanting “Death to America” I did not see facts to support the claim. Where is / are fact(s) to support the claim. Radical Islam is threating our country. Islamist are using the Bill of Rights and our laws to attack us from within. We will defeat Islam and Radicals Islamist with facts and the truth. Need facts not headlines to grab our attention. Just as the USSR attempted to attack America from within and failed so to will Islam fail but we need to be vigilant and maintain fact based defense and offense against Islam.

AS, that is why I put a question mark next to ‘Death to America?’ However, if they are chanting Muslim prayers, they are calling for the conversion or killing of all unbelievers, so I really didn’t need the question mark at all.

This is incredible!!! The sisters at this school should communicate with the sisters in the Christan villages in Syria , Egypt and throughout the ME and learn how inclusive the muslimes are, how tolerant of diversity they are, and how they regard oneness =Islam will reign supreme. At this day and age, can anyone be so naive? Or for money they are selling their souls to Satan ????

People need to educate themselves on the true nature of Islam and how insidious it is,especially the Muslim Brotherhood.The Brotherhood is the Westernized ,civilized face of Islam but it is all just a show.They are articulate,educated in top universities here and in Europe,but are more sinister than the
more visible extremist groups.Their ultimate prize would be establishing Sharia Law in the US.The Obama administration is on friendly terms with the Brotherhood.(No surprise there).A well researched book on the Brotherhood is by Erick Stakelbeck who has been on CNN and other news shows.

It’s all about the money. The school was not successful, so they accept easy dollars from those who wish to “divide and conquer” from within. If the Catholic school was a Burger King and business was failing, they’d call a Whopper a Big Mac to help bring in $$$.

I just left off watching the Glazov Gang on Frontpage Mag. Another eye opener for all of us, especially for the NUNS. They should watch the interview with a real hero, Mr. Steven Emerson.
I can see by the sign outside the school that they equate Jesus with mo. That should bring down Christianity to a much lower level. How the hell can they be so stupid? Are they that hard up for money? Maybe in order to save that school from mo they should sell a statue or two from their extensive collection in rome.

So sad. My visit back home to Suffolk county this summer didn’t see any ragheads but I felt uneasy if there was some kind of attack I wouldn’t be able to escape . First visit back I felt that way in 30 years. Poor Long Island

I was at Stonybrook University Hospital last week with my son for almost 9 hours. I was so nervous and uneasy after what happened in Kenya, waiting for hours in the ER, like a sitting duck. Anyone could have stormed that hospital and killed many, many people, at any time. I guess I better stay out east in the sticks where I feel much safer. Of course, seeing muslim Dr.’s parading around didn’t help matters! and lots of patients in head bags!

Thanks Bonni. He has a mystery ailment and even Stonybrook has no answers. We need DR. HOUSE! Not only did no muslim touch him but all of them, including the patients in headbags, got stares and looks of disgust from no other than yours truly. That was especially fun when they moved him to the hall next to the very busy bathroom. LOL It is a very unnerving place to be stuck for all those hours. NO security!

KIM, I was in Stonybrook Hospital a few years ago after getting dumped off a horse. Didn’t see any muslims. Actually, there was one young doctor in the ER who came to do something to me and I wasn’t sure if he was a Muslim or not. He looked like a Paki. So I asked him where he was from and he said India. I said, you’re not Muslim are you? He said, No, I’m a Hindu and was very indignant about it.

Chrislam?! What Chrislam?!……unholy union of Christianity and pislam?!…..HELL NO!!….What THIS is an UNHOLY UNION of CINO (Christians In Name Only) who allow waaaaaay too much latitude to a bunch of maniacal muslimes who seek first to deceive them into joining them and then, if that doesn’t work, just kill the —-ing infidels!!….Time for some liberal Catholics and other “Christians” to grow some gonads and take a stand and tell the muzzies “NO ARSELIFTERS ALLOWED HERE!!”

These invaders are nothing but MOLES, just waiting for the days when their population gets stronger and they destroy all visible crosses and run the Christians out – just like in every other Muslim majority area.

Depending on the order of nuns, many nuns look at this type of behavior in the category of “social justice” I know the Sisters of St. Joseph in my area are VERY fond of social justice issues. The Catholic church keeps making stupid decisions. I was raised Catholic, but have attended a Baptist church for years. In the last 10 years nearly all the Catholic schools have closed in my area, churches are combining as the population of priests declines. The (the US at any rate) Catholic church has lost it’s fire.